Returns the approximate processor time used by the process since the beginning of an implementation-defined era related to the program's execution. To convert result value to seconds divide it by CLOCKS_PER_SEC. Because the beginning of the clock era does not have to coincide with the start of the program, only the difference between two values returned by different calls to clock is meaningful. If the CPU is shared by other processes, clock time may advance slower than wall clock. If the current process is multithreaded and more than one execution core is available, clock time may advance faster than wall clock.

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